Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「中飽私囊」, detailed below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「中飽私囊」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
To profit from something. It refers to embezzling the money in one’s possession for personal gain.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhōng bǎo sī náng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jung1 baau2 si1 long4
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